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Bill Self, University of Kansas
Barry Hinson’s Coaching History
Year School
Position All Conf. Finish
Postseason Men’s Basketball Head Coach
1993-94 Oral Roberts
Assistant —
6-21 — — “I have never been around a more positive, 
1994-95 Oral Roberts
Assistant —
10-17 — — energetic, unsel sh person. He is loyal, 

1995-96 Oral Roberts
Assistant —
18-9 — — ethical and can coach and recruit. He also is a 
1996-97 Oral Roberts
Assistant 21-7 — —
NIT 1st Round GREAT...not good public speaker -- probably 
1997-98 Oral Roberts
Head Coach 19-12 —
12-4 1st
1998-99 Oral Roberts
Head Coach 17-11 —
10-4 1st
got that from his father, a Baptist minister. I 
love the guy. The community, administration, 
1999-00 Missouri State
Head Coach 23-11 NIT 2nd Round 13-5 2nd 
2000-01 Missouri State
Head Coach 13-16 —
8-10 7th (tie) staff and players will also in Carbondale. 
2001-02 Missouri State
Head Coach 17-15 11-7 4th
—
Barry Hinson gets it and will be a great 
2002-03 Missouri State
Head Coach 17-12 12-6 3rd (tie)
—
2003-04 Missouri State
Head Coach 19-14 9-9 5th
—
person to work with and build the Southern 
Illinois basketball program.”
2004-05 Missouri State
Head Coach 19-13 10-8 5th
NIT 2nd Round 
2005-06 Missouri State
Head Coach 22-9 12-6 2nd (tie) NIT 3rd Round 
2006-07 Missouri State
Head Coach 22-11 12-6 3rd
NIT 1st Round 
2007-08 Missouri State
Head Coach 17-16 8-10 7th (tie) —
Roy Williams, University of North 
2008-09 Kansas
Staff
27-8 14-2 1st
NCAA Sweet 16 Carolina Men’s Basketball Head 
Coach
2009-10 Kansas
33-3 Staff
15-1 1st
NCAA 2nd Rnd 
2010-11 Kansas
35-3 Staff
14-2 1st
NCAA Elite Eight “Barry will do an absolutely great job at 
2011-12 Kansas
32-7 Staff
16-2 1st
NCAA runner-up Southern Illinois. He is an outstanding 
2012-13 Southern Illinois
14-17 Head Coach 6-12 10th
—
2013-14 Southern Illinois
14-19 Head Coach 9-9 4th (tie) — person, wonderful personality, and great 
enthusiasm for the game. He will get the 
2014-15 Southern Illinois
12-21 Head Coach
4-14 9th — 
2015-16 Southern Illinois Head Coach
22-10
11-7 4th (tie)
—
Southern Illinois people  red up and his 
Record as Head Coach at Oral Roberts
36-23 22-8 teams will be extremely organized and play 
Record as Head Coach at Missouri State
169-117 95-67
extremely hard. I think it is a great marriage.”
Record as Head Coach Southern Illinois 62-67 30-42
OVERALL RECORD 267-207
Doug Elgin, Missouri Valley 
Conference Commissioner

season, Hinson was rewarded with a one-year contract extension that will “Barry Hinson is an exceptional basketball 
keep him at SIU through the 2017-18 season.
coach and teacher, and a proven program 
builder. He’s been successful at every Hinson was named the school’s basketball head coach during a press 

coaching stop in his career. Coach Hinson is a conference on March 28, 2012. He became just the 13th head coach in the 
man of great integrity and high character, he 99-year history of the program. Hinson, 53, served four years on Bill Self’s 

has recruited exceptionally well, and he has staff at the University of Kansas from 2008-12. The Jayhawks were one of 
a track record of graduating an extremely the nation’s premier programs during that four-year span with a combined 

high percentage of his student-athletes. I 107-21 record and a trip to the National Championship game in 2012.
compliment the Search Committee, athletics Prior to Kansas, Hinson was the head coach at Missouri State for nine 

director Mario Moccia and Chancellor Rita seasons. While at Missouri State, he guided the Bears to a 169-117 record 
Cheng for making a tremendous hire. I have (.591) with postseason NIT teams in 2000, 2005, 2006 and 2007. His 2006 

absolutely no doubt that Barry Hinson will squad was left out of the NCAA Tournament with a 21 RPI. That club went 
return Saluki basketball to prominence.”
on to win NIT games over Stanford and Houston.

Although Southern Illinois dominated the Missouri Valley Conference 
by winning six-straight championships from 2002 to 2007, Hinson’s Bears 
Doug Gottleib, CBS Sports
“Barry Hinson brings class, passion and a beat Southern 10 times -- more than any other conference school during his 
unique knowledge of how to win in the nine-year tenure. The Bears had three 20-win seasons under Hinson and 

Missouri Valley Conference that few coaches advanced to the  nals of the MVC Tournament three times. Twenty-three of 
possess. In coaching hires, a key ingredient Hinson’s 26 players who completed their eligibility as seniors for the Bears 
received undergraduate degrees from Missouri State. Thirteen of Hinson’s 
in success or failure is  t, and Barry Hinson 
 ts SIU and Carbondale perfectly. I expect players went on to play professionally overseas.
“I’m genuinely excited to be the head coach at a university with a 
the winning culture of Saluki basketball to 
return with Barry Hinson at the helm.”
great tradition in college basketball, and even more excited to be part of a 
community which seems so much like the place where I was raised,” said 

Andy Katz, ESPN.com
Hinson, a native of Marlow, Okla.
Hinson spent eight years as a high school coach in Oklahoma before 
“(Barry Hinson) revived his career while 
working for Bill Self at Kansas. Hinson landing a college job on Self’s staff at Oral Roberts in 1993. Four years 
later, he took over for Self at ORU and produced records of 19-12 and 17- 
knows the Valley as well as any coach in the 
conference. He didn’t suddenly forget how 11 in two years as head coach and tied for two Mid-Continent Conference 
regular-season titles.
to recruit or coach after his absence from 
the bench. This should be an immediate hit Hinson and his wife, Angie, have two daughters, Tiffany and Ashley, 
and a grandson, Carter. He is the son of Tiffany and Niles Thomason, who 
in Carbondale and will help the Salukis get 
back to being a highly competitive team.”
passed away on Christmas Day, 2013.



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